Sunday, May 12, 2013

Hottest year ever update, mid-May Manitoba edition: Nine-meter wall of ice destroys at least six homes and cottages

Wall of ice destroys Manitoba homes, cottages - Manitoba - CBC News
A local state of emergency has been declared in a western Manitoba municipality after homes in Ochre Beach were destroyed and seriously damaged by a wave of lake ice.

Area officials told CBC News the wind pushed built-up ice off Dauphin Lake on Friday evening and caused it to pile up in the community, located on the lake's southern shore.

The piles of ice, which were more than nine metres tall in some cases, destroyed at least six homes and cottages, according to the Rural Municipality of Ochre River.  [Via BK]

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